The Digital Leader

Digitally transform your organization, one manageable step at a time

In The Digital Leader: Finding a Faster, More Profitable Path to Exceptional Growth, a team of visionary entrepreneurs delivers an authoritative and engaging roadmap demonstrating how to digitalize your business by taking small, achievable steps that yield measurable, near-term results. In this handbook of concrete strategies and methods, the authors show you how to pinpoint and implement bite-sized projects that sync up with your business priorities.

You’ll learn how to find and choose between the digital enablement options available to you while discovering the tools you need to explain their value to stakeholders and get much-needed buy-in from executives, managers, and employees. You’ll also:

• Learn about the value of experimentation, continuous innovation, and how to generate dramatic transformation by using incremental changes to your advantage
• Find out how to digitalize one piece of your business at a time, instead of taking on a gargantuan transformation all at once that is destined for failure
• Discover how to straddle the technology and business worlds and help define each of them to the other

A can’t-miss resource for executives, managers, and other business leaders, The Digital Leader also belongs in the bookshelves of IT and data professionals seeking to maximize their impact on the businesses around them.

About the Authors

Ram Charan, (Atlanta, Georgia; https://ram-charan.com/) is a world-renowned business consultant, author and speaker who has spent the past 40 years working with many top companies, CEOs, and boards of our time. In his work with companies including Toyota, Bank of America, Key Bank, ICICI Bank, Aditya Birla Group, Novartis, Max Group, Yildiz Holdings, UST Global, Fast Retailing (Uniqlo), Humana, Matrix, Longfor and two of the four largest digital companies in China, Ram is known for cutting through the complexity of running a business in today’s fast changing environment to uncover the core business problem.

Ram has authored more than 30 books since 1998 that have sold over 4 million copies in more than a dozen languages. Three of his books were Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including Execution, coauthored with former Honeywell CEO Larry Bossidy, which spent more than 150 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. He also has written for publications including Harvard Business Review, Fortune, BusinessWeek, Time, Chief Executive and USA TODAY.

Raj Vattikuti, (Southfield, Michigan) is a philanthropist and entrepreneur who founded a string of successful enterprises including Altimetrik, Covansys, Synova, Vattikuti Ventures, Vattikuti Technologies, and Davinta Technologies. He is executive chairman of Altimetrik, which he founded in 2012 with a vision to accelerate digital business for the most influential companies in the world. Raj believes enterprises make a difference not only by leveraging or introducing new technologies but also by attracting, assessing, and transforming talent within their organizations. Through his ventures, Vattikuti has supported leading global players in healthcare, manufacturing, automotive, retail, travel, hospitality, and financial services.